Improved mop



v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO T. BOON AND WILLIAM W. SPAULDING, OF GALESBURG, ILL,

IMPROVED MOP.

Specifir ation forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,872, dated March21, 1865, antedatcd February 1, 1865.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ALoNzo T. BooN andWILLIAM W. SPAULDING. of the city of Galesburg, county of Knox, andState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful I'llprovement in Mops;and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexplicit description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is a front View. view.

Like letters indicate like parts.

The nature of our improvement consists in a mop that can be manufaetured much cheaper than those now in use, and which can be wrung orcleansed without putting the hands into the water.

The handle A is made of wood. The rod B is made of iron or other hardsubstance, and to which is attached the cross rod O. D is a shorthandle, which is made to slide easily upon the rod B, and to which isattached the cross-rod E. F F are spiral springs, which slide upon thecross-rods G and E. H H are washers or heads, which are fastened uponthe ends of the cross-rods C and E. I is a Fig. 2 is a side set-screwfor fastening the short handle D to the rod B at any point desired.

Operation When the mop is ready for use,

the short handle D is down, as represented in Fig. 2, and when the sameis to be wrung or cleaned we loosen the set-screw I, take hold of thehandle D with one hand and the handle A with the other hand, and slidethe handle D up to the handle A, (as represented in Fig. 1,) and byholding firmly in one hand the handle D, and turning with the other handthe handle A the mop-cloth is twisted around the rod B, which wrings itsufficiently dry, and by means of the spiral springs F F the cloth iswrung more even at the ends. The washers or heads H H are to prevent thesprings and cloth from slippin g 011' the ends of rods 0 and E. Themop-cloth is attached one end to the cross-rod O and the other to thecross-rod E.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

The rod B, with eross-rod O and heads H H, the handle D, with cross-rodE and set-screw I, and spiral springs F F, when their parts are arrangedas specified, in combination with the handle A, for the purpose setforth.

ALONZO T. BOON.

\VM. \V. SPAULDING.

Witnesses:

J. GRANT, N. WAUL.

